A wholesale corruption of science underlies the UK Government's insistence that gas from fracking offers a 'low carbon', low cost route to energy abundance, writes Paul Mobbs. On the contrary: it's expensive, over-hyped - and just as bad for climate change as coal.
… Fracking 'as bad for climate as coal' - UK's dodgy dossier exposed … May 2014 News Energy Fossil Fuels Fracking UK Climate Change Science … expensive, over-hyped - and just as bad for climate change as coal. As Charlie Chaplin …
This week thousands of groups and communities will ACT on climate change as part of Climate Week. Founder Kevin Steele speaks to the Ecologist about what it takes to maximise momentum in the climate movement
… Climate Week's Kevin Steele: 'We must focus on … Matilda Lee | 13th March 2012 Activism Climate Change Energy Climate Week Katharine Hamnett EDF Nissan H&m …
The governor of the Bank of England recently argued that the risk to the stability of the financial system from climate change is a responsibility of central banks, writes Matthias Kroll. They can begin by using QE - 'quantitative easing' - to finance the Green Climate Fund, and so stimulate the economy, rescue the climate, and save the global financial system.
… 'QE for climate' is the win-win solution for COP21 Dr … Kroll | 25th November 2015 Comment Finance Climate Change Green Economy Economics Energy … to the stability of the financial system from climate change is a responsibility of central …
Take action with campaign group 350.org to ‘connect the dots' of climate change and extreme weather
… TAKE ACTION to connect the dots on climate change Mark Briggs | 27th April 2012 Activism Climate Change Energy 350.org Extreme Weather … attention to the world's extreme weather and climate change Take action with campaign group …
Twice as many people in India and Japan rank climate change as one of the most important environmental issues, highlighting the challenge facing UK policymakers and climatologists
… a quarter of UK population concerned about climate change William McLennan | 18th April 2011 News Climate Change Energy Renewables … Twice as many people in India and Japan rank climate change as one of the most important …
UN climate negotiations get under way today in Bonn, Germany - and they offer a key opportunity for campaigners to gear up their fight against fracking, writes Jamie Gorman, because to stabilize the Earth's climate, the gas must stay deep underground.
… activists - engage with us in Bonn climate talks Jamie Gorman | 4th June 2014 Comment Fracking Climate Change Unfccc Fossil Fuels Energy balcombe-cut.jpg UN climate negotiations get under way today in …
After leading the way on climate legislation with the 2009 Climate Change Act, the Scottish government are now putting their money where their mouth is with the creation of the Climate Justice Fund to pay for developing country adaption projects
… Climate justice: Scotland pioneers new fund to … Chris Hegarty | 13th March 2012 Activism Climate Change Energy Climate Adaptation Scotland Wind Energy Donald …
Edgar Vaid reviews a book which aims to convey the knowledge revealed by current climate research through the power of images, graphics, and case studies.
… For Climate's Sake! A Visual Reader of Climate Change Edgar Vaid | 15th May 2013 Reviews Climate Change Energy for cliamtes sake.jpg …
In the run-up to the COP21 climate summit in Paris the G20's Antalya Communiqué is weaker on climate, fossil fuel subsidies and support for renewable energy than the G20's 2009 Pittsburgh Statement made shortly before the failed COP15 in Copenhagen six years ago.
… Weeks before COP21, G20 fail the climate challenge Oliver Tickell | 16th November 2015 News Climate Change COP21 G20 Energy Renewable … g20-turkey-cut.jpg In the run-up to the COP21 climate summit in Paris the G20's Antalya …
Climate policy could bite on fossil fuel resource values much faster than financial markets anticipate, writes Sam Fankhauser. It's time investors wised up to the hazards of investing in fossil fuels, when two thirds of them may have to remain unexploited.
… Financial markets should get serious on climate policy Sam Fankhauser | 22nd March … Economy Energy Fossil Fuels coal-mine.png Climate policy could bite on fossil fuel … may have to remain unexploited. The number of climate change laws on the statue books of the …
Australia's Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has handed the environment portfolio to the energy minister in an attempt to calm climate sceptics. But will it work? Ecologist writer Maxine Newlands reports.
… Australian Climate Sceptics Challenge Clean Energy Plan … Australia Energy Great Barrier Reef Climate Change frydenberg tweet 3.jpg … to the energy minister in an attempt to calm climate sceptics. But will it work? Ecologist …
Tackling global warming with better public transport, increased energy efficiency, renewable energy, clean cookstoves, better waste management could increase global GDP by $2.6 trillion. The alternative is growing risk from harshening climates ...
… lives Chris Rose | 30th June 2014 News Climate Change Economy Finance Energy … alternative is growing risk from harshening climates ... A new report by the World Bank and the ClimateWorks Foundation says tackling global …
President Obama's whistlestop Alaskan tour highlighted his unique ability to believe in two completely contradictory ideas at once, writes Timothy Clark. On the one hand, the importance of climate change and the urgency of preventing dangerous warming. On the other, the importance of the Arctic's fossil energy and the urgent need to exploit it as rapidly and completely as possible.
… Arctic charade: Obama's Alaskan tour and the climate change 'puzzle' Timothy Clark | 15th September 2015 News USA Politics Climate Change Energy Oil Corporations Mining … Clark. On the one hand, the importance of climate change and the urgency of preventing …
A new carbon 'tax and dividend' climate strategy would strengthen our economy, reduce regulation, help working class Americans, shrink government, promote national security, and reduce emissions, write eight senior US conservative politicians, financiers and academics. Now Republican control of all branches of the US government makes it an opportunity not to miss!
… dividends - the conservative solution to climate change Climate Leadership Council | 9th February 2017 Comment Climate Change Politics USA Energy Renewables …
The key study that justifies the Government's claim that fracking is a climate change 'solution' is based on serious scientific errors, writes Nick Cowern. Not only has the Government failed to correct them, but it is now delaying the publication of a new official report that would reveal the truth - that fracking is considerably worse for the world's climate than coal.
… Nick Cowern | 15th June 2016 News Fracking Climate Change Emissions Science Energy Coal … the Government's claim that fracking is a climate change 'solution' is based on serious … is considerably worse for the world's climate than coal. Some time early this decade …
Extinction Rebellion has a lot to learn from Ende Gelände, the grassroots climate action group that is radical in theory and practice.
… Climate justice action in Germany Alice Swift … to learn from Ende Gelände, the grassroots climate action group that is radical in theory … means ‘here and no further,’ and the mass climate justice movement was successful in …
One of the world's biggest energy companies has been caught out in what may be the biggest ever climate scandal, writes Bill McKibben. Way back in the 1980s ExxonMobil knew of the 'potentially catastrophic' and 'irreversible' effects of increasing fossil fuel consumption, but chose to cover up the findings, spread misinformation on climate change, and go for high carbon energy sources.
… Scandal! Exxon knew about climate change, boosted denialism, misled … Bill McKibben | 9th March 2016 News Energy Climate Change US Politics exxon.jpg One of … caught out in what may be the biggest ever climate scandal, writes Bill McKibben. Way …
Campaigners fear that the abolition of DECC, the department of energy and climate change, indicates that climate will take a low priority in Theresa May's policy agenda. Meanwhile the pro-fracking, pro-nuclear Andrea Leadsom is in charge of environment department Defra.
… | 14th July 2016 News Politics UK Energy Climate Change Brexit Economics … of DECC, the department of energy and climate change, indicates that climate will take a low priority in Theresa …
Republican proposals to cut the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) budget by almost a third is an attempt by climate deniers to roll back 40 years of progress in cleaning up America’s air, water, industry and transport, according to campaigners
… US battle over climate regulation engulfs vital environmental … budget Felicity Carus | 1st March 2011 News Climate Change US Energy Politics And … budget by almost a third is an attempt by climate deniers to roll back 40 years of …
The COP27 agreement cannot be just another text that serves dirty industry and energy lobbyists to hinder genuine progress and climate justice.
… COP27 COP26 Paris Agreement Energy Lobbying Climate Breakdown Blah Blah Blah The COP27 … lobbyists to hinder genuine progress and climate justice. No more mixed signals, please. The yearly UN climate summit or Conference of the Parties …
The Paris Agreement provides a clear mandate to limit global warming, writes Jeremy Brecher. And with governments doing nowhere near enough, it's up to ordinary citizens - through civil disobedience if needs be - to make sure the world breaks free from fossil fuels. Let's make 2016 the year of 'Climate Insurgency'!
… After Paris, the year of Climate Insurgency Jeremy Brecher | 13th January 2016 Comment Climate Change COP21 Fossil Fuels Energy … fossil fuels. Let's make 2016 the year of 'Climate Insurgency'! In December of 2015 - the …
Swedish energy giant Vattenfall won a gold medal at this year's celebration of climate spin and misinformation, with a special award going to the government of Denmark for services to the world's most polluting industries
… Vattenfall & Shell win Climate Greenwash '09 The Ecologist | 19th June 2009 News Energy Climate Change Vattenfall Shell Greenwash Climate Greenwash Awards Copenhagen World …
In a potentially devastating blow to the Earth's climate, President Trump's new executive order ends the Interior Department's moratorium on coal mining on public land and begins a repeal of the landmark Clean Power Plan, writes Trip Van Noppen. But this reckless move will not pass unchallenged - the Supreme Court has ruled that the EPA must tackle climate pollution, and clean energy policies can still be defended and advanced at state level.
… Executive Order removes climate safeguards - now, the fightback Trip … EarthJustice | 29th March 2017 Comment Energy Climate Change Politics USA Fossil Fuels Coal … a potentially devastating blow to the Earth's climate, President Trump's new executive order …
With COP21 out of the way there is absolutely no time to lose, Greenpeace director Kumi Naidoo told Pavlos Georgiadis: 'Because by tomorrow, there might be no tomorrow.' We need substantial, structural, systemic change - and this change can only be led by the youth, who are not infected by the political pollution of the past. And whose future is it anyway?
… Kumi Naidoo: let the youth be our climate leaders! Pavlos Georgiadis | 18th December 2015 Comment COP21 Climate Change Society Energy Renewables … now is one of the chief global figures of the climate justice movement. Naidoo, now …